Pink Box Partners packed Dunwoody Country Club on Oct. 20 with 220 guests for a luncheon and fashion show benefiting breast cancer patients.
Nearly all attendees dressed in pink for the sold-out event, as first reported by Appen Media. The nonprofit, founded in 2025, assembles and delivers care packages to women undergoing breast cancer treatment. It has sent more than 300 boxes to patients across the country and internationally this year.
Holly Covington, president of Pink Box Partners, started the organization after her own breast cancer diagnosis in 2018. She said she struggled emotionally during treatment. Her daughter noticed and began leaving encouraging notes on Covington's bathroom mirror.
"Those little notes, they were such a difference to me," Covington said. "They got me up … and got me going."
That experience became the seed for the care packages, which contain candles, blankets, fuzzy socks, self-care products and journals.
Hayley Brammer, who received a pink box in October 2025 while recovering from a double mastectomy and preparing for chemotherapy, spoke at the luncheon. She said opening the box reminded her she was not alone.
Katrina Abbate, manager of clinical operations at Emory Winship Cancer Institute, also addressed the crowd. Abbate said she delivers pink boxes to patients and called it often the best part of her day.
Residents interested in supporting the nonprofit or requesting a box for a patient can visit pinkboxpartners.com.
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